Thomas Stearns Eliot, “T.S. Eliot”, was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1888 (T.S. Eliot Biography).He attended Smith Academy in St. Louis and the Milton Academy in Massachusetts. His family was from New England (T.S. Eliot Biography). Eliot studied at Harvard University from 1906-1909 where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts(T.S. Eliot Biography). He was influenced by his professors who were known for their poetry, philosophy and literary criticism. He first published “the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” in 1915. In 1921, he published “the Waste Land”( T.S. Eliot Biography). The poem is renowned for redefining the genre. In 1948, Eliot won the Order of Merit and the Nobel Prize in Literature(T.S. Eliot Biography). He moved to Europe in the 1920s and spent most of his life there until his death in London, England in 1965(T.S. Eliot Biography).